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Russia deployed Bastion anti-ship missile system to Sevastopol, threats US

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Sunday, March 9, 2014
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11:22 PM

Russia deployed Bastion anti-ship missile system to Sevastopol, threats US

Russia deployed Bastion anti-ship missile system to Sevastopol in night of 8 to 9 March. Follow bystanders recorded the movement of Bastion anti-ship launcher complex on the streets Crimea.

Bastion missile Complex movement on the streets Crimea

Earlier media reports, this complex was deploy in Anapa, Krasnodar. Probably thrown to counter U.S. Sixth Fleet, by which may are threats to the Russian warships in the Black Sea.

The K-300P Bastion-Pis a Russian mobile coastal defence missile system. The system was developed together with the Belarus company Tekhnosoyuzproekt.

The system is designed for the destruction of various surface ships from an enemy's landing squadrons, convoys, carrier strike groups, as well as single vessels and land-based radiocontrast targets in conditions of intensive fire and electronic countermeasures. The system uses the P-800 Yakhont (SS-N-26) anti-ship cruise missile and has a maximum range of 300 km.